naive

• naïve

Borrowed from French naïve, from Latin nativus (“native, natural”). Doublet of native.

• IPA^(key): /naɪˈiv/

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naive (comparative more naive, superlative most naive)

1. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
   • 1965, Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics and music), “Going on Seventeen”, in The Sound of Music‎:

     I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive

2. (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

   I've always liked the naive way in which he ignores all the background detail.

3. (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
   • 2007, Takao Terano, ‎Huan Liu, ‎& Arbee L.P. Chen, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, →ISBN:

     We have experiments of running our matching algorithm and a naive matching algorithm for such a term tree and a tree, and have compared the performance of the two algorithms.

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• See also Thesaurus:naive

• naif
• naïf

• naevi, navie, nævi

naive

1. plural and definite of naiv

naive

1. naively

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naive

1. inflected form of naiv

naive

1. definite singular and plural of naiv

naive

1. definite singular and plural of naiv

naive

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of naiv.